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he has joined us just recently. we are developing what we feel overly great warm spot for writers, because there's so few places now where they can get their books reviewed. we do video. read a wonderful interview gives very few interviews about his new book, the humbling. so i think a combination of video and pictures and reviews and interviews and extracts which were not doing, it's really developing quite a following. and i think hopefully we will span into the breach which has been led by so many spanish book reviews section. >> have you ever reviewed harold evans books? >> we extracted harold evans book and i don't get that i negotiated him down. >> so much of your professional life has been involved with the written word, and with books. why? >> i'm a passionate reader myself. our house is just wall-to-wall books. i mean, wall to wall. you can't believe how may books in our house. but my husband is a passionate reader and writer. i am a passionate reader and writer. and we're just a family of bookworms. >> hav
he has joined us just recently. we are developing what we feel overly great warm spot for writers, because there's so few places now where they can get their books reviewed. we do video. read a wonderful interview gives very few interviews about his new book, the humbling. so i think a combination of video and pictures and reviews and interviews and extracts which were not doing, it's really developing quite a following. and i think hopefully we will span into the breach which has been led by...
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it should be used more often. my short unhappy life as a newsroom manager i only fired one person and he and i were happy over the next day. he was a screenwriter in hollywood. he was the smartest person who ever worked for me but went to capitol hill to cover hearings to read charles dickens novels. in large chunks of the testimony of what happened to the banking committee, you don't do any favors by leaving them in which they are not fit. it is not people who don't get it but people at odds with you. the corollary to that is relief cannot be a career terminator. you are not the right person for this job right now. you are an honest, loyal, duties will officer. that is what made general officer management work in world war ii. you were not successful within 90 days. sometimes less. relief did not end your career. one of the great nickname's ever was an assistant division commander, was relieved and devoted to colonel. saved the army and retired as a four star general. a more famous case, general terry, commander
it should be used more often. my short unhappy life as a newsroom manager i only fired one person and he and i were happy over the next day. he was a screenwriter in hollywood. he was the smartest person who ever worked for me but went to capitol hill to cover hearings to read charles dickens novels. in large chunks of the testimony of what happened to the banking committee, you don't do any favors by leaving them in which they are not fit. it is not people who don't get it but people at odds...
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bruce gave us a 60 days and i think strobe for minicam to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interests were at stake. in these two countries. this was not vietnam where the vietcong posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq where saddam hussein similarly did not oppose a direct threat. this was an area where attacks on our soil and other countries, including pakistan itself, and the people out there've had said very clearly they would do it again as the new mass on christmas day demonstrates so fully. in fact, this particular person was not trained in pakistan does not change the fact that the aspiration for all of this comes from al qaeda, and al qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the afghanistan-pakistan border. so we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue, and we could not walk away from it. the second question was, therefore, what do we do about it? the answer has been laid out in a series of speeches and public statements by preside
bruce gave us a 60 days and i think strobe for minicam to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interests were at stake. in these two countries. this was not vietnam where the vietcong posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq where saddam hussein similarly did not oppose a direct threat. this was an area where attacks on our soil and other countries, including pakistan itself, and the people out there've had said very clearly they would...
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nobody ever tells us." and then i look at the budget and we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows. and then what is deeply discouraging is that they say, we know what the chinese do. we know what the japanese do. we can point to the buildings they build and the roads that they have laid. i want the world to know what the american people are doing to try to fight poverty and provide education and healthcare. we've got to bring this to scale, which is why i talked about sectors and areas of convergence. so there is a lot of work that raj is going to be facing, that we need the help of the larger community. let me say a word about contractors. some of the best people in development are doing contract work. i know people. people used to be at usaid or somewhere else who are now doing contract worke. it is not financially sustainable. we cannot continue to send so many >> out -- we cannot continue this in so many dollars out the door with no monitoring, no evaluation, no accountability. i
nobody ever tells us." and then i look at the budget and we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows. and then what is deeply discouraging is that they say, we know what the chinese do. we know what the japanese do. we can point to the buildings they build and the roads that they have laid. i want the world to know what the american people are doing to try to fight poverty and provide education and healthcare. we've got to bring this to scale, which is why i talked...
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they are watching us. i don't think i am paranoid. they really are watching us. [laughter] and, they love that. so our job is to watch them. and, we have to understand that despite all the trappings of government, which indicate that they are all powerful. they have the military, they have the money, they have the security apparatus and so on. the fact is historically, and here's where history comes in handy, the moose, powerful governments of had to change policy when the people demanded it. when an outcry grew so great that it became threatening to the government, then the government had to change policy. we have seen governments topple. we have seen tyrannies toppled all of the world that seemed to be impregnable. in the philippines suddenly it dictatorship, marcos is totally in charge in wickes up one morning and there are 1 million people in the streets. he leads. really picket this is happening in place after place, in hagee dubai yea jones on the plane because the people rising up. the fact is governments like all-powerful entities are vulnerable. the gove
they are watching us. i don't think i am paranoid. they really are watching us. [laughter] and, they love that. so our job is to watch them. and, we have to understand that despite all the trappings of government, which indicate that they are all powerful. they have the military, they have the money, they have the security apparatus and so on. the fact is historically, and here's where history comes in handy, the moose, powerful governments of had to change policy when the people demanded it....
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the idea being that the japanese might use chemical weapons against us in the south pacific or we might have to use them against the japanese, and there is no understanding of what would be like in dutch arbuckle environment. we have control of these islands. we will test weapons there. not all of them went off. there are to this day and accounted for a number of chemical weapons sitting on a few islands off the coast of panama. the u.s. has offered in addition to the kind of bear minimum cleanup that it did after it pulled out of luck canal zone in 1999 we have offered a miner's son of money i think a couple of million dollars to help them clean up these facilities but our position has been what are you asking for you want to go in and clean up unpopulated islet and destroy to get to these weapons you will clean them up and then the result will actually be worse as a few -- as opposed to leaving them alone to our response has been a deal with it, and here is some hush money. compare that with our efforts -- our cleanup efforts in canada. as i mentioned a couple of relatively minor smal
the idea being that the japanese might use chemical weapons against us in the south pacific or we might have to use them against the japanese, and there is no understanding of what would be like in dutch arbuckle environment. we have control of these islands. we will test weapons there. not all of them went off. there are to this day and accounted for a number of chemical weapons sitting on a few islands off the coast of panama. the u.s. has offered in addition to the kind of bear minimum...
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he outlasted all of us. .. was able to take his place because he just kept going and going and going. decade day after day, week after week. month after month, year after year. decade after decade. and it was an incredible thing to see. but what you will see in these drawings of cartoons, it really is a portrait of everything. it isn't just the "times" the famous or infamous figures. i love early on -- in one of these early cartoons and i was fascinated to go through and see -- when he had the rise of hitler. and he has this little figure marching on the stage in 1932. before hitler became the head of germany. and then you look a couple pages later and he's got hitler with a tommy gun standing up over a globe about to explode, 1934. and herb was in those days and to the end of his life, he was trying to warn america of the dangers of nazism and the terrorism that might be involved with the world war. and to wake us out of our isolationism and our rejection of the world around us and so forth. and i find it just
he outlasted all of us. .. was able to take his place because he just kept going and going and going. decade day after day, week after week. month after month, year after year. decade after decade. and it was an incredible thing to see. but what you will see in these drawings of cartoons, it really is a portrait of everything. it isn't just the "times" the famous or infamous figures. i love early on -- in one of these early cartoons and i was fascinated to go through and see -- when...
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but the two of us started working together with a lot of help from a lot of friends and reached a height in our world of academics, politics, military and society. this autobiography was initially designed for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren with a simple message that you can do what ever you want to do and for the records, we have 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. and just point of pride i always throw in our oldest great-grandson, 19, 6-foot 8 inches tall. [laughter] he does play basketball. i started to work on this book back in 1992. in collaboration with bill and i sure most of you have heard of him who don't know him personally making a movie that he had to drop out of working as we had planned and he just became an adviser and was very helpful helping me to negotiate some of the pitfalls that come from writers. i should point out early on that i am a slow learner. i just finished this book about two years ago which meant from 1992 to 2007 of course along the way i had several unique challenges, some more of unique than others and i think don knows what i'm
but the two of us started working together with a lot of help from a lot of friends and reached a height in our world of academics, politics, military and society. this autobiography was initially designed for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren with a simple message that you can do what ever you want to do and for the records, we have 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. and just point of pride i always throw in our oldest great-grandson, 19, 6-foot 8 inches tall. [laughter]...
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us. it led to the toppling of the government, to the resignation of a president, two steps ahead of almost certain impeachment. it put the country into a terrible tailspin and i would submit that we're still not out of that. and it ignited in young journalists the belief that they could automatically become a woodward or a burn stein. so on the one hand the excitement into doing investigative reporting is very good. president overexcitement that you could actually be woodward and burnstein overnight was very destructive. up at the kennedy school we give out a prize every spring time to the best investigative reporting. and i have to tell you that with all of the economic and technological problems now facing newspapers across the country i am always so happy to receive 100, 110, 115 submissions every year. really first-class investigative reporting. first class. and then it becomes extremely difficult for us to have to make a selection as to which one of these is the best. and i always en
us. it led to the toppling of the government, to the resignation of a president, two steps ahead of almost certain impeachment. it put the country into a terrible tailspin and i would submit that we're still not out of that. and it ignited in young journalists the belief that they could automatically become a woodward or a burn stein. so on the one hand the excitement into doing investigative reporting is very good. president overexcitement that you could actually be woodward and burnstein...
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to help us out. those positives not withstanding, in the spring of 1998, 18 months after starting, with pressure from my wife, and several family members, i resigned with the admonition from louise that if you take another job like that, we may not be together for our next anniversary. that was in 1998. as i said, i'm a slow learner, but i'm not stupid. we celebrate our 61s 61st anniversary last january. two last comments of before closing. district of columbia public schools have had 10 superintendents, c.e.o.'s, chancellors, whatever you want to call them, in 20 years. i've said many times that i think that would make an excellent study to find out what the problem is and make an excellent doctoral evaluation. during the post-army period, i served in five corporate boards, received five honorary doctorates, one of which my good friend here was there at carlisle not too long ago. been a member of a federal district judge oversight board committee. in a desegregation case in alabama. knight versus al
to help us out. those positives not withstanding, in the spring of 1998, 18 months after starting, with pressure from my wife, and several family members, i resigned with the admonition from louise that if you take another job like that, we may not be together for our next anniversary. that was in 1998. as i said, i'm a slow learner, but i'm not stupid. we celebrate our 61s 61st anniversary last january. two last comments of before closing. district of columbia public schools have had 10...
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that is the definition that i use in my book. shortly after i came to amnesty international i had the occasion to visit south africa. i went to a police station with an amnesty researcher and found counselors to help complaints about domestic violence. that is one of the most progressive laws on domestic violence. here was an attempt to assist women, very progressive and the story of rosy. rosy's story is in the same chapter. rosy was a south african woman and mother of 5 who was beaten often by her husband and one day she was beaten so badly that she died. i asked the counselor why rosie had not gone to get a protection order. easy for a woman and simple. pay for the bus fare to take her. the best laws of the land could not protect rosy. you now hear the story of rosy. of course all of us recognize right away the issue of lack of income but that is not the whole story. it is about the insecurity with which poor women live and the difficulty they have in getting out of that situation. that is why this holistic definition includes
that is the definition that i use in my book. shortly after i came to amnesty international i had the occasion to visit south africa. i went to a police station with an amnesty researcher and found counselors to help complaints about domestic violence. that is one of the most progressive laws on domestic violence. here was an attempt to assist women, very progressive and the story of rosy. rosy's story is in the same chapter. rosy was a south african woman and mother of 5 who was beaten often...
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who's suffering is actually unwearable to us. in the mansion of our arts and letters, we live like children, running and playing, up and down the hallways all day and all night. we fill room after room with the things that we make. after our deaths, we'll leave behind our poems, drawings, and songs, made for our own pleasure. and we won't know if they'll be allowed to help in the making of a better world. [applause] does anybody have questions? answers? >> that was beautiful. thank you. i guess i'm kind of a guy without giving away your an himty, i'm curious the general neighborhood that i grew up in and the general neighborhood that you live now. >> well -- >> just for a point of reference. >> i grew up on the upper east side. i live in chelsey. >> i love the mansion of arts and letters. that's great. >> can you elaborate on what made up the sandwiches? >> no. [laughter] i mean that's. that's the sandwich we're all looking for. [laughter] >> i wanted to ask a question about something that i just recently read about something tha
who's suffering is actually unwearable to us. in the mansion of our arts and letters, we live like children, running and playing, up and down the hallways all day and all night. we fill room after room with the things that we make. after our deaths, we'll leave behind our poems, drawings, and songs, made for our own pleasure. and we won't know if they'll be allowed to help in the making of a better world. [applause] does anybody have questions? answers? >> that was beautiful. thank you. i...
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the administration has used 9/11, has used to scare people and to do what it wanted. what it wanted was to move troops in the middle east for the oil was, wanted to set up military bases in the middle east and a used 9/11 as a wonderful opportunity. it wasn't going to do anything about terrorism. it's very obvious now to simply follow the evidence of 9/11 by bombing afghanistan did not reduce terrorism. in fact, increased the possibility of terrorism. we have by our actions in the middle east since 9/11 largely increased the number of terrorists in the middle east and in the world because we have antagonized so many people. when you bomb people you antagonize them. [laughter] when you in paid people you antagonize them. he made enemies, you get people angry and out of the anchor of millions of people a small number of them become terrorists so they have used 9/11 -- to me that's the important truth about 9/11. >> the last speaker mentioned the patriot act. in the past several weeks the bush administration has hired a 10 or more top attorneys in the justice department
the administration has used 9/11, has used to scare people and to do what it wanted. what it wanted was to move troops in the middle east for the oil was, wanted to set up military bases in the middle east and a used 9/11 as a wonderful opportunity. it wasn't going to do anything about terrorism. it's very obvious now to simply follow the evidence of 9/11 by bombing afghanistan did not reduce terrorism. in fact, increased the possibility of terrorism. we have by our actions in the middle east...
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us in the face. in the latest issue, we have this special report that looks at these new developments and makes the case that we finally should do something, do what we should have done years ago, and that is to offer humanitarian aid to the vietnamese for the suffering of those affected by agent orange and to derive by our veterans and offer v.a. care to all who serve, no questions asked. you can agree or disagree with those arguments, but i think there's no doubt, and i think we've documented pretty carefully that this is an issue that is going to be on the radar screen for the obama administration, for congress, and for the v.a. and so to discuss these issues, we brought together a panel that i'm honored to introduce now. dr. michael f. martin is a specialist in asian affairs for the congressional research service of the library of congress. dr. martin's professional career has included work in china, japan, hong kong, and vietnam. he has taught at hong kong baptist university, colby college and a
us in the face. in the latest issue, we have this special report that looks at these new developments and makes the case that we finally should do something, do what we should have done years ago, and that is to offer humanitarian aid to the vietnamese for the suffering of those affected by agent orange and to derive by our veterans and offer v.a. care to all who serve, no questions asked. you can agree or disagree with those arguments, but i think there's no doubt, and i think we've documented...
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they are almost oblivious to the fact -- there's a phrase they used to use. virginia was the bomb they used to say. we were it. i guess our sheer size contributed. i'd like to say there was a special quality about virginia's. i've been here 20 of myself and i love the state, but i really couldn't account for what it was, what cause, you know, why virginia. i will say though, you are right, the names you mention. washington, the father the country. jefferson is the father of the declaration. and of course, later on he will have mattison and mason, important leaders and other political areas. unit, virginia get produced some great leaders spent what are the everyday virginians think about british and also the revolution? >> while, it depends. you've got to have some tory or loyalist support. but it wasn't so greater in virginia. as maybe in new york where you've done quite a bit of loyalist support. that's what my book focus a lot on. more of the everyday virginians that i have a lot of courts on that. what i think is need is you can see, as you see the whole d
they are almost oblivious to the fact -- there's a phrase they used to use. virginia was the bomb they used to say. we were it. i guess our sheer size contributed. i'd like to say there was a special quality about virginia's. i've been here 20 of myself and i love the state, but i really couldn't account for what it was, what cause, you know, why virginia. i will say though, you are right, the names you mention. washington, the father the country. jefferson is the father of the declaration. and...
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so it became amen and alan and ronnie were used which their parents started using evin at home when their children started school. secure they were. alan's thought there was in his 26 year as a gender of four. ronnie had been there a year before his hand got crossed and alan signed up with the company in 65 during senior week. he already worked three days by the wind at his prom. in another job is meant just to last the summer. alan thought he would never last two days let alone been working his third summer. he wanted to quit after the first day that there was no way to do that and still live in his father's house. at least with their diets now they didn't have to go to work. but just like how ronnie disappeared, the south was disappearing from beneath him and more bullshit like urban renewal, more like removal alan flout. there were buying up their low-income houses and clearing them to convert the south and into a industrial zone. the mayor hubbard wanted a buffer between the defeat could deport and dearborn. plenty of the good people the south and was detroit and they didn't care any
so it became amen and alan and ronnie were used which their parents started using evin at home when their children started school. secure they were. alan's thought there was in his 26 year as a gender of four. ronnie had been there a year before his hand got crossed and alan signed up with the company in 65 during senior week. he already worked three days by the wind at his prom. in another job is meant just to last the summer. alan thought he would never last two days let alone been working...
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and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in fact, this particular person was not trained, and pakistan does not change the fact that the inspiration for all of this comes from al qaeda and al qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the afghanistan/pakistan border. so we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue. we could not walk away from it. the second question was therefore, what do we do about it? the answer has been laid out in a serious of speeches and public states by president obama march 27th and december of last year were the two major statements. but ther
and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in...
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there are those of us trying to serve. now we have the task -- many of them -- >> let me say two things. if you look at the rhetoric around schizophrenia. there was a stream of mass american culture. this form of mental illness, other kinds of things. it was a problem with us in the mainstream. what happens over the course of this history is among other things services are cut away. it forces people at the front lines like yourself to not just care in the financial and social support. in terms of one particular case. issues like mistrust might have emerged not because of this case. is happening in more subtle ways. it is a multifaceted issue that is not an linked to the issues we were talking about. this is not just from doctors into a ski. >> we're looking about ways to address them. not engaging the community, >> hi was wondering if schizophrenia was an illness. >> there are different reasons why that is. having to do with different kinds of angle. how did schizophrenia occupy a cultural position. i look at it in relatio
there are those of us trying to serve. now we have the task -- many of them -- >> let me say two things. if you look at the rhetoric around schizophrenia. there was a stream of mass american culture. this form of mental illness, other kinds of things. it was a problem with us in the mainstream. what happens over the course of this history is among other things services are cut away. it forces people at the front lines like yourself to not just care in the financial and social support. in...
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it would use the weapons or use them for nuclear back mail or so forth. he was very alarmed about this. he was in the vast majority. saying it was likely to be historically the most significant in the 1960s. actually, probably the most historically significant and worst was john kennedy's decision to escalate the war in vietnam. in part largely to deal with what he saw as the common threat coming from china. and john mccone is the head of the central intelligence agency at the time, unless it is led by an alliance, it is almost inevitable. so the question is what has happened with the china bomb? answer: nothing. they've wasted a certain amount of money. they built bombs, and said from the beginning they would not use them first. they built far fewer than they could. clearly if they wanted to, they could have ha lot more. they hardly even talk about it. in fact, a lot of people don't know that china is the nuclear power. we talk about the olympics, they are building a lot of tv sets. no one says, yeah, they have nukes too. they moseley sat in silos or war
it would use the weapons or use them for nuclear back mail or so forth. he was very alarmed about this. he was in the vast majority. saying it was likely to be historically the most significant in the 1960s. actually, probably the most historically significant and worst was john kennedy's decision to escalate the war in vietnam. in part largely to deal with what he saw as the common threat coming from china. and john mccone is the head of the central intelligence agency at the time, unless it...
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use a pin or use a typewriter, using those days, typewriters. he talked. and his talks were taped. and he had other people sort of listened to tapes and put them into print. and that's the way he worked and that's what he has this long, long bibliography which goes beyond the published books to probably dozens of reports. another way that he sponged was he loved -- i did this several times within. he loved to go to bookstores. the day with the really big, not barnes & noble times, and he walked around the bookstore with a salesperson and said one of those, one of those, one of those. ship them to me that they were not for books, they were like 45 books. and when i walked into his office, it was just bolting with books. against all the walls. piled up on the desk, everywhere. and i said to herman once, how do you find time to read these books? anti-sort of smiled, and he said, i absorb them osmosis. [laughter] >> and i think he really did believe he could do that. when you walk into herman's office, he had a big desk piled high with books, and a reclining chair. and he was very roun
use a pin or use a typewriter, using those days, typewriters. he talked. and his talks were taped. and he had other people sort of listened to tapes and put them into print. and that's the way he worked and that's what he has this long, long bibliography which goes beyond the published books to probably dozens of reports. another way that he sponged was he loved -- i did this several times within. he loved to go to bookstores. the day with the really big, not barnes & noble times, and he...
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i used to live there when i was a teenager. one thing i learned there -- >> you lived in afghanistan? >> 1969 to 1971 and kabul. my father was a professor for two years. i was a member of the afghanistan ski patrol junior grade and skied there. a lot of afghans are ill literate. it does not mean stupid. i'm not sure mints you will cultured. the average afghan probably knows more poe friday by heart than hardly anyone in america. you can run into afghan tribesmen that know hundreds of poems and thousands of proverbs. we would consider in their conversation quite literate. even when lived there, it seemed to me the warfare was w the afghan national sport. one of my favorite books on this reege son by john masters. it is a memoir of being in british officer in the 1930s. the a much began cousins showed up rather angrily and confronted him. where are our models, they said? they said turn enemy. no, no. you gave medals to the men on your side. we want our medals, too. you couldn't have had a good war without us. very much the afghan
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were left us looking around for new recruits? in the late 60s, the new left was having enough trouble staying sober enough to figure out what it actually wanted to. >> i'm going to take the last question right here. >> i'm from nowhere in particular. i was reading "the new york times" book review. one thing i can thing struck me here. no genuine capitalist would have done the following which was to give up part of the proceeds from each book sale in order to retain the entirety of the speech. and it seems to fundamentally misunderstand ran? >> would you repeat the question. >> the author of "the new york times" book review on your book talks about how rand gave up seven safar book sale. he goes onto say that no genuine capless would have done this. that seem to completely misunderstand ran. >> i agree. . .
were left us looking around for new recruits? in the late 60s, the new left was having enough trouble staying sober enough to figure out what it actually wanted to. >> i'm going to take the last question right here. >> i'm from nowhere in particular. i was reading "the new york times" book review. one thing i can thing struck me here. no genuine capitalist would have done the following which was to give up part of the proceeds from each book sale in order to retain the...
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she used to say a equal say and reason being important. all the ideas about the philosophers go right into rand. in terms of leyna i find they had a long epistolary relationship and had a long argument about religion in part of the ways. on a detailed this in some depth in the book. what's interesting to me about leyna and rand the of different ways of looking at the world. lamb is a committed libertarian but has this strong belief in human interdependence and connection and rand didn't get that and they couldn't see ytoy and after some friendly letters this quickly emerged as a flash point and then in their meeting it took the form of religion and then they never met again and lane would criticize rand and felt some of her ideas were good but, you know, she said this alien worship of man is no answer to the kirks. that was her freeze in fact. so i think there is a lot of really interesting parallels between them and the fact three women play this role in the to the limit of libertarianism as a historian is fascinating to me. so that is so
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and your patient inside about the goal of leadership in this idea of learning organizations and help us to connect? >> that is a good question. i think there are aspects of the learning organization modeled that are very important and one of the points i make in the book is it was a big mistake to throw counterinsurgency out the window as the army basically did after vietnam and the marine corps did continue to do some construction. so i think you want that to be an important part but there is i think, there is a danger and there's an interview with general mattis i did that is quoted in the book to talk about this. with the focus too much fun being in bunning organization you tend to get to drawn into your doctrine and try to much to rely on the past and that again gets back to this issue of certain personalities like to use the past then to think innovatively about the present. mattis' point the u.s. military has become over reliant on its doctrine and certainly the army has a greater tendency in that regard but as i said too, every situation is different. i do think we can't use the
and your patient inside about the goal of leadership in this idea of learning organizations and help us to connect? >> that is a good question. i think there are aspects of the learning organization modeled that are very important and one of the points i make in the book is it was a big mistake to throw counterinsurgency out the window as the army basically did after vietnam and the marine corps did continue to do some construction. so i think you want that to be an important part but...
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can you offer us, i know you have written deeply about this but can you offer us a little framework about then impact of the murder of emmet till? >> i can try. i didn't know this actually until i read jeff's book and it was one of the first things that comes up in the book and it was astounding thing both as a testament, a document if you will, to the sense of consciousness that young fred hampton must have had come about what society was capable of, what happens when one is matched against structures of power. it must have been something that reminded everyone i would imagine, at the hampton family, about what sorts of risks, what kinds of dangers, what profound injustices existed out in the world. it in the south but in a certain sense also everywhere. i think though that the thing that must have come up, and the symmetry, which is awful let one level to think about and at the same time profoundly moving of having exactly the same-- the word that martha used a moment ago was rehabilitation. the state's for roche's desire to the same this yen man after they murdered him. the way in whic
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us. >> thank you. >> we will continue our supreme court interviews in a moment with a conversation with justice ruth bader ginsburg. for more information on the court, visit our website. read about the history of the court and learn about the construction of the supreme court building. now, more information about our supreme court programs. >> all this week, a rare glimpse into america's highest court, through unprecedented conversations with 10 supreme court justices. >> the most symbolic, a meaningful moment for me during my public investiture was sitting in justice marshall's chair and taking the oath with my hand on the bible. it was like history coursing through me. >> our interviews with supreme court justices conclude friday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. get your own copy of our original documentary on the supreme court on dvd. it is a free disc set including programs on the white house and the capitol. >> now our interview with associate justice ruth bader ginsburg. she h
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against us as a result. so between the military and the civilians, we will wind. that is not really how it is done or what history tells us. history tells us would you run effective counterinsurgency you kill a lot of people and if you don't you incarcerate them and engage in broad brush relatively harsh tactics to do that because the point* of counter in search counterinsurgency is to get order and you do it any way you can. doesn't matter if there is collateral damage or if you lock up the right people but it matters you are imposing order and security. that is the whole plan a point*. you don't kill with kindness you do that with military force. if you look at the british who are often acknowledged as the experts in counterinsurgency usually because they had colonies they had to run counterinsurgency operations to have security in the colonial empire. that is what the brits did. it is not pretty. it is ugly and runs counter to how we believe or what we believe we are as a country which is why the presiden
against us as a result. so between the military and the civilians, we will wind. that is not really how it is done or what history tells us. history tells us would you run effective counterinsurgency you kill a lot of people and if you don't you incarcerate them and engage in broad brush relatively harsh tactics to do that because the point* of counter in search counterinsurgency is to get order and you do it any way you can. doesn't matter if there is collateral damage or if you lock up the...
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it comes to all of us. and here, the "us" is a black "us," not universal "us." king is putting himself in the community of black bitterness and he had gone through a phase of hating white people and had taken him years to get over his hatred of white people just as it had taken daddy king years to get over his hatred of white people so when king who was seen as this cheap turning fellow by more militant blacks and white society they didn't understand king's vision was tough minded. i know it's hard to love the white man. he's not trying to argue against that. he says there's a better way. it doesn't mean. it's hard to like. love is operating in the human heart. so king identified powerfully with black alienation but never was this sense of black canyon more powerful than win king channel the voice of the sleeves. and this is something before black power, before black pride, king had a powerful identification with the sleeves. he actually brought it into his white preaching as well but that's another story, national cathedral. he didn't leave out ancestors but mu
it comes to all of us. and here, the "us" is a black "us," not universal "us." king is putting himself in the community of black bitterness and he had gone through a phase of hating white people and had taken him years to get over his hatred of white people just as it had taken daddy king years to get over his hatred of white people so when king who was seen as this cheap turning fellow by more militant blacks and white society they didn't understand king's vision...
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that's not how we used to operate, and that's not how i intend us to operate going forward. we are going to take these big things on, and i'm going to do it, and you're going to do it, because you know that we want to leave a better america for our children and our grandchildren. and that doesn't mean standing still; that means marching forward. i want to march forward with you. i want to work with you. i want to fight for you. i hope you're willing to stand by me, even during these tough times, because i believe in a brighter future for america. thank you, everybody. god bless you. ♪ ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> next, secretary of state hillary clinton's speech on internet freedom. after that, the state department briefing on the diplomatic efforts concerning worldwide internet access. then the house hearing on the force could shootings. -- on the fort hood shootings. >> abigail adams had to remind john adams to rem
that's not how we used to operate, and that's not how i intend us to operate going forward. we are going to take these big things on, and i'm going to do it, and you're going to do it, because you know that we want to leave a better america for our children and our grandchildren. and that doesn't mean standing still; that means marching forward. i want to march forward with you. i want to work with you. i want to fight for you. i hope you're willing to stand by me, even during these tough...
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we said let's use existing agencies. you will see in the bill, if you're part of the independent living system you should use the independent living centers. if you're part of the aging community, you should use that. the combination of aging and disability is perfect. we don't want to create new things. we want to use existing mechanisms that are out there to pull together because there are other resources. when i did some early intervention for younger children, went to delaware on that because nobody was doing anything. delaware has the highest rate of drugs coming into the coast of delaware has the highest rate of infant mortality. delaware has the highest rate of breast cancer. when i went to the governor's office to talk about the value of bringing things together, said make a visit to the house and you got the pregnant teen over there that can be an early registry, you have a mom who hasn't had them mammogram. you can bring all that together witches are reasoning to say don't reinvent the wheel. use the existing b
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it took us that long to get us here today. not because melissa didn't do her job but because the rest of us, i think, kept her from getting it finished. she not only did it start there but it was her idea and then she volunteered to do it. i think she might do that over again differently today. [laughter] >> her leadership has been extraordinary. her negotiating skills and thanks to her the american people now have -- i think it's fair to say the first ever consensus statement on constitutional role of religious expression in american public life under current law. and those of you who are not with the press can certainly now applaud melissa for her leadership on that. [applause] >> while the document we released today builds on the civility and the trust that have characterized similar common ground negotiations over the past two decades. now, the people at the table have varied. but the process, i would say, has consistently reflected a shared dedication to first amendment principles. even when we disagree on how to apply th
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can you help us understand how this happening. can you help us understand why it happened? and can you help us understand who carried out that? was secretary clinton will also do next week is make an announcement about how the state department is going to sponsor internet freedom initiative, how we can, through a being and betting human rights organizations, internet freedom organizations, health chinese dissidents and other dissidents in iran and north korea and elsewhere gain access to the internet. >> host: wanted to give folks an idea of just some background on google that was founded in 1998 by larry paige and sergey brin and the chairman is eric schmidt also an advisor to president obama. he incorporated in september of 1998. it also has annual revenues of some 5.94 billion. how much of that income comes from their china operations? >> guest: very little. about 1%. they've about 300 million i believe market share in china. that's not that significant. what is significant is that china is now the largest internet market in the world. their 30,060,000,000 internet users
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if we can find ways using the personal exemption, using the earned income tax credit, using the property tax relief credit, to talk -- to cut taxes on people who need help the most, people of modest income and poor people. there is something wrong in illinois where our state is taxing poor people into further poverty. we is the state and as a general assembly and as a governor can come together and work together just as we did for the capital bill on the job recovery bill. we can do this years -- this year, not next year, to make sure we have adequate revenue for important things that all of us want in government, doing it in a fair way that does not unfairly tax anyone. i looked forward to doing that with you. i think it is important that we embark on this journey and i want to assure you over the course of this year that we will continue to cut costs in government. there's only been one governor in the history of illinois he was a super-8 card, and i have used it as governor, it will continue to use it where appropriate. it is important to show economy everywhere you can. i have a vip
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it used to be about 42%. now it was about 53% or so of people. i think the president in a number of ways domestically, a lot of business, a lot of spending. the promise, i think, of tax increases has taken people aback a little bit and i think he has damaged his brand, as they say in the language of merchandising which has now become the language of politics. i think jersey was the big election. i think obama had carried jersey i think by about 15 points just one year ago. now the democratic governor, a strong supporter of obama, obama had come and stood with him three times saying, new jersey, vote for this man. he just lost by five points. it was about a 20-point drop in support. that tells you something. jersey is a democratic state, but they're worried about specific things. unemployment, taxes, they worry about a lot in jersey. terrible property taxes. a bad economy. that's where their minds are. that's who votes in jersey. the president -- >> i lived in jersey. >> i lived in jersey. that's what they're worried about right now. >> still in j
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used to be called the aluminum company of america. the largest aluminum maker in the world that it is also lobbying for the environmental restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions in the name of global warming. alcoa happens to make aluminum car frames, aluminum car frames are just as strong but much lighter than steel carvings. high quality performance cars will have an aluminum frame as opposed to a steel frame. aldermen costs a lot more to make. so the effect on u.s. consumer or an automaker of environmental regulation, whether it isw3 to efficiency standards or global warming regulation, is to drive up the cost of buying a steel car which makes you more likely to bite and a aluminum framed if you're. alcoa makes most of its aluminum and manufactures most of the car frames down in australia. where it has just successfully lobbied to kill the global warming bill down there. and the
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what cheney is really saying is when you don't use like words like war on terror or use of words you are therefore projecting weakness and in 518v attacks. it is no-space and 40 years and during through that journey and a cast of many who started in 69 are 70 and reached the limit in 2009. that is a key element to understand this and kramer's role is unique. he opens a door to the nixon administration we have never seen before and it allows us to see things we have never seen before and how things were done to undermine the policies and in the end if you think about it and general haig is the ultimate cramer i eighth, if you buy that, then he should protect the president but he doesn't he does everything he can to make sure dickson does not survive. we have looked at lighthouse tapes after the smoking gun tape and we saw a time and time again haig gave a price that was detrimental. nobody else has reported on this it is clear nixon is guilty you will read that richard nixon was directing the cover-up march 19732 projected gordon strong who he had just learned was involved in the brea
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us together here. do you have a last word? >> i don't know. there are many legacies. just to learned who fred hampton was and what our potential is to touched and moved and inspire other people. if we take on that energy that is certainly one of the legacies. the other is they struggle against government abuse, government misconduct. the supreme executive, taking away our rights, the struggle of our lives. we must continue it and fight to persevere. that struggle is what defines many of our lives particularly as lawyers. that is the struggle we should be part of and we need to educate and we need the community behind us. that made the difference here. we had a receptive audience in the black community. we were able to prevail not only because of our recollection of fred but we had a community supporting us that spread the word watching that house lined up along will block. all of us are part of the legacy of the life and death of fred hamilton. >> one of the legacies is understanding the many ways in w
us together here. do you have a last word? >> i don't know. there are many legacies. just to learned who fred hampton was and what our potential is to touched and moved and inspire other people. if we take on that energy that is certainly one of the legacies. the other is they struggle against government abuse, government misconduct. the supreme executive, taking away our rights, the struggle of our lives. we must continue it and fight to persevere. that struggle is what defines many of...
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you know us. there are little things that you put in there but it's so easy because it's such a bad image that they have. i don't have to do much to kind of, you know, sort of spark that. and i like to use imagery, too. i thought it was important. that's a good question. i talked to a high school in chicago last week and i have to say and they had the best questions and this is consistent, this new generation. >> you just briefly mentioned after 9/11 how it was very -- it was maternal, after 9/11 people talked about the death of feminism because men needed to product the world. on the republican side, a lot of people -- republican called arms for the war in afghanistan was to like liberate women. they spoke a lot about women in afghanistan, the plight of women. now like nine years later there's still like a massive -- like there's a very deep profound problem in afghanistan. the afghans saying women are made for the home or the grave and there's been laws of forced marriage, legalization of rape a
you know us. there are little things that you put in there but it's so easy because it's such a bad image that they have. i don't have to do much to kind of, you know, sort of spark that. and i like to use imagery, too. i thought it was important. that's a good question. i talked to a high school in chicago last week and i have to say and they had the best questions and this is consistent, this new generation. >> you just briefly mentioned after 9/11 how it was very -- it was maternal,...
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stay with us. the head coach of the temple owls will join us when we [vibrates] g morning, sunshine. wakey, wakey. text me back. [chattering] [vibrates] hey. did you tell your parents about us? let's skip first period together. did you get all my texts? is practice over yet? where you at? are you with your friends? that's laaaa-mee. capital "x," lower-case "o," capital "x," lower-case "o," i love you. jk. i hate you. jk. are you ignoring me? we're in a huge fight right now. is it something i did? i can see your lights on. i'm coming over. this isn't a joke. what did you dream about? [overlapping] is it me? i'm lonely. holla back. holla back. let's try something new. nude pics. send me some. text me. Ñ?w er of the atlantic 10 season against st. joseph here in philadelphia at the liacouras center. joining us now is the head coach of the temple owls fran dunphy. fran, i know after the game against kansas, you were probably hoping that your team would respond in the opener to the a-10. did they respon
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he will keep us off and walk us through the program. the floor is -- kick us off and walk us through the program. dennis, the floor is yours. >> thank you, and good afternoon. i'm dennis warner and i am the senior water adviser for catholic relief services, and i will be the moderator for that meeting today. there are people who do not have the seeds and need to seats -- there is a room one floor down at this end up the circular walkway, with a video feed where you can sit and watch and hear the panel in perhaps a bit more comfort. but it is your trees. at this point, i would like to ask ken hackett, president of catholic relief services, to make some remarks to you. ken he is the head of a work in -- ken is the head of an organization which is one of the largest humanitarian relief organizations in the world. he oversees activities in over 100 countries, with a staff of our perching 5000 people. -- fallstaff approaching 5000 people. he became president -- a staff approaching 5000 people. he became president in 1993. >> thank you to the
he will keep us off and walk us through the program. the floor is -- kick us off and walk us through the program. dennis, the floor is yours. >> thank you, and good afternoon. i'm dennis warner and i am the senior water adviser for catholic relief services, and i will be the moderator for that meeting today. there are people who do not have the seeds and need to seats -- there is a room one floor down at this end up the circular walkway, with a video feed where you can sit and watch and...
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who come down from on high and help the rest of us. i mean, that was really a debate during the election because remember hillary clinton had said during the election, well, even though martin luther king jr. was important, it took a president to sign the voting rights act because that's after when then-senator obama kept invoking dr. king. he kept invoking dr. king and the fierce urgency of now. and then-senator clinton said, wait, hold up a minute, it took a president to sign that bill. so she was invoking this focus that, look -- notion, that, look, our politics are still run in this top-down way. her point was that you still needed a president to transform this institution, transform this nation. and really i think that the most transformative parts of our history, especially when we think about the civil rights movement and the black power movement and these social movements of the 1960s and '70s and the postwar period, it's really ordinary people who transform this period. it's really sharecroppers, seamstresses, people who are i
who come down from on high and help the rest of us. i mean, that was really a debate during the election because remember hillary clinton had said during the election, well, even though martin luther king jr. was important, it took a president to sign the voting rights act because that's after when then-senator obama kept invoking dr. king. he kept invoking dr. king and the fierce urgency of now. and then-senator clinton said, wait, hold up a minute, it took a president to sign that bill. so...
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which is hopefully of greater use than just this one application but could be used in other situations around the world. there has been some criticism in the vietnamese press and from the vietnamese government about the speed at which this cleanup program has proceeded however my impressions have been that by and large the relationship between the u.s. entities and vietnamese entities are involved in this containment and clean-up activity has been fairly good and fairly successful. moving than to the health care issue then things start getting a little more problematic and a part of the big issue is the act will scope or scale of the issue is really are known. if you look at vietnamese figures, we have already heard the figure of 400,000 deaths attributable to exposure to the agent orange by oxen, the vietnamese themselves, but the figure of 4.8 million people in to get mom that have health or medical problems associated with exposure to dioxin and agent orange, and one recent media reports put that in your estimated cost of dealing with health effects of agent orange dioxin at $30 bil
which is hopefully of greater use than just this one application but could be used in other situations around the world. there has been some criticism in the vietnamese press and from the vietnamese government about the speed at which this cleanup program has proceeded however my impressions have been that by and large the relationship between the u.s. entities and vietnamese entities are involved in this containment and clean-up activity has been fairly good and fairly successful. moving than...
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gorbachev in 1989 it used a phrase which had so infuriated. later by 1990-'91 cards have had moved beyond that. this understanding of socialism by that time was more than us synonymous with west european social democrats. really by that time no longer west german chancellor, but presidents of socialist international organization of democratic socialist parties in western europe. and the spanish socialist prime minister at that time. kirby johnson least favorite politicians were not surprisingly nikolai ryzhkov. the fact that the soviet union had embraced an advertising change and by no means a fully fledged democracy had become a pluralistic political system with contested elections for a legislature with real power was of profound importance for eastern europe. even more important, and this is my fourth immediate source was a change of soviet foreign policy. as early as 1985 gorbachev told the leaders of the east european countries that you could expect no more soviet interventions to keep him in office, no more military assistance. this was
gorbachev in 1989 it used a phrase which had so infuriated. later by 1990-'91 cards have had moved beyond that. this understanding of socialism by that time was more than us synonymous with west european social democrats. really by that time no longer west german chancellor, but presidents of socialist international organization of democratic socialist parties in western europe. and the spanish socialist prime minister at that time. kirby johnson least favorite politicians were not surprisingly...
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all of us is free. after andrew's murder, his mother carolyn became synonymous with the civil rights movement. she spoke in this very room to our gallery of educators inspiring them with a message of social justice and act vism and inenforcing their work at the museum. when she spoke to audiences in this theater she shared intimate details of her family life. like she stuck bandages into his duffel bag when he wasn't looking, just in case. she also participated in several programs. dr. goodman is a permanent part of our core exhibition and can be heard on the museum's audio tour recalling her son's decision to go to mississippi. he told her they are americans and they should have the right to vote and they are not permitted. she relates he was 20 and needed his parents' permission to go and she and her husband were very anxious but in her words we thought now the world can we possibly say no to andy and not give him our permission? her soul shown through her grief and she dedicated herself to telling th
all of us is free. after andrew's murder, his mother carolyn became synonymous with the civil rights movement. she spoke in this very room to our gallery of educators inspiring them with a message of social justice and act vism and inenforcing their work at the museum. when she spoke to audiences in this theater she shared intimate details of her family life. like she stuck bandages into his duffel bag when he wasn't looking, just in case. she also participated in several programs. dr. goodman...
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to some many of us, we did to so many of us, she is a role model. she is a mentor, teacher, coach and a dear friend. please join me in welcoming her. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i am here on behalf of the secretary of defense. mr. gates was not available today and so he asked me to come in and provide some opening remarks on behalf of the department. i am very pleased to do so. thank you, general sudden, for those very kind words and that wonderful introduction. good morning to everyone. welcome to this second annual conference on suicide prevention. it is the only conference established to specifically address the issue of suicide in the military and a veteran population. it is very important that you all are here. it is quite obvious that you care and you spend many of your days and nights caring about this issue and making a difference and the lives of our service members and veterans and their families. i want to thank the distinguished guests who are here who were mentioned earlier and of course, i would like to thank the chairman of
to some many of us, we did to so many of us, she is a role model. she is a mentor, teacher, coach and a dear friend. please join me in welcoming her. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i am here on behalf of the secretary of defense. mr. gates was not available today and so he asked me to come in and provide some opening remarks on behalf of the department. i am very pleased to do so. thank you, general sudden, for those very kind words and that wonderful introduction. good morning to...
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let us begin. president obama and members in congress are now in final -- the final stage of having out a national health-care bill. there is a real possibility that the winner of this election will be in a position to ensure passage of the bill for its defeat. do you want voters in massachusetts to see next tuesday's vote on a referendum on this national health care bill? mr. brown? >> thank you and a pleasure to be here. i think the institute. i thank you for your question. the health care bill being proposed in washington is broken by the bad deal -- by the back room deals. we need to start over. we have health care here in massachusetts. 98% of our people are already insured. we have done it. we do not need what is being pushed in washington on massachusetts, spending $500 million on medicare? we know we need to reform and that is something we're going to be doing very shortly. to think that we need of one size fits all plan from congress, coming down here and hurting what we have? that is one
let us begin. president obama and members in congress are now in final -- the final stage of having out a national health-care bill. there is a real possibility that the winner of this election will be in a position to ensure passage of the bill for its defeat. do you want voters in massachusetts to see next tuesday's vote on a referendum on this national health care bill? mr. brown? >> thank you and a pleasure to be here. i think the institute. i thank you for your question. the health...
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thank you. >> son used by using enhanced screening technology. are you using the body imaging systems as the primary method of screening? >> we the get security as a system of lasers. -- we look at security as a system securitylayeof layers. it is behavior detection, it is canines, it is increase law enforcement presence, it is a series of layers that we will be adding to the security we already have at our domestic airports in the wake of this instance. >> you said that 300 additional scanners will be deployed in 2010. was that planned before this event? how much will it cost? >> it was planned before this. there was already finding that the congress had appropriated for the tsa. with respect to how many more, we will be working on that as part of our ongoing review. i would caution you not to focus solelyÑi on that technology. Ñithis is a series of layers tht we will be enhancing. >> both of you and the president mentioned the word accountability. all of three he made the point that it was not just the mistake of one person. who is being held
thank you. >> son used by using enhanced screening technology. are you using the body imaging systems as the primary method of screening? >> we the get security as a system of lasers. -- we look at security as a system securitylayeof layers. it is behavior detection, it is canines, it is increase law enforcement presence, it is a series of layers that we will be adding to the security we already have at our domestic airports in the wake of this instance. >> you said that 300...
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some are angry and all of us, all of us want to know how and when things are going to get better. now, our immediate future holds some difficult challenges. no rhetoric, no eloquence changes that reality. in two weeks i will return to this chamber with a proposed two-year budget with stark numbers that leave little room for maneuvering. we are facing a huge deficit will require us to make painful decisions about where we spend money. it will require sacrifice and restrained. we face this challenge even though it appears that our national economy and our state economy is beginning to slowly improve. the unfortunate reality is that tax revenues are traditionally one of the last things to recover at the end of a recession. but folks, this challenge can be overcome. and i'm confident that together we can write and pass a balanced biennial budget as we are legally required to do and that we can do so in a responsible manner. and i'm confident that at the same time we can focus on the future by addressing fundamental problems impeding kentucky's progress. you know, i didn't become gover
some are angry and all of us, all of us want to know how and when things are going to get better. now, our immediate future holds some difficult challenges. no rhetoric, no eloquence changes that reality. in two weeks i will return to this chamber with a proposed two-year budget with stark numbers that leave little room for maneuvering. we are facing a huge deficit will require us to make painful decisions about where we spend money. it will require sacrifice and restrained. we face this...
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and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in fact, this particular person was not trained, and pakistan does not change the fact that the inspiration for all of this comes from al qaeda and al qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the afghanistan/pakistan border. so we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue. we could not walk away from it. the second question was therefore, what do we do about it? the answer has been laid out in a serious of speeches and public states by president obama march 27th and december of last year were the two major statements. but ther
and bruce gave us 60 days. i thank strobe for lending him to us. and we concluded quite simply that america's basic national security interest were at stake in these two countries. this was not enough where the vietnam posed no direct threat to the american homeland. it was not iraq, where saddam hussein had attacks on our countries, including pakistan itself has been planned. the people out there said they would do it again, very clearly, as the near miss on christmas day demonstrates. in...
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it boxes us in in ways that makes it difficult for us to work together. our constituents start believing us. they do not know sometimes that this is just politics. the tone of civility instead of slash and burn would be helpful. the problem we have sometimes is an immediate response only to slash and burn style politics. you do not allow a credit if i said i think paul ryan is a sincere guy and it's a beautiful family. no one is going to run that in the newspapers. [laughter] and by the way, in case you get a republican challenge, i did not meet it. -- i did not mean it. [laughter] i do not want to hurt you, man. on the specifics, i think both sides can take some claiblame fa sour climate on capitol hill. what i can do to try to help is to bring republican and democratic leadership together on a more regular basis with me. i think that is a failure on my part. i need to foster better communications, even if there is disagreement. i will try to see if we can do more of that this year. that is on the general issue. on the specific issue of trade, you are ri
it boxes us in in ways that makes it difficult for us to work together. our constituents start believing us. they do not know sometimes that this is just politics. the tone of civility instead of slash and burn would be helpful. the problem we have sometimes is an immediate response only to slash and burn style politics. you do not allow a credit if i said i think paul ryan is a sincere guy and it's a beautiful family. no one is going to run that in the newspapers. [laughter] and by the way, in...